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Re: Bugs in Cygnus Tools bash


On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:19:46PM +0100, Scheinert Frank EXT wrote:
> Version : GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(8)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> 
> 1st Bug
> following output is created by man, help and info commands:
> 
> myPrompt>man man
> bash: man: command not found

You didn't install the man package.

> info command gives no getopts information.

The `info' command doesn't print bash builtins and never did.

> Finally, the bash itself doesn't know the getopts function
> [...]
> 2nd Bug
> User defined functions like
> 
> function usage
> {
> 	echo blabla
> }
> 
> produce a "function: not found" output.

bash-2.05b$ function blabla
> {
>   while getopts abc myopt
>   do
>     echo Option $myopt
>   done
>   echo blabla
> }
bash-2.05b$ blabla -a 
Option a
blabla


So what?

Corinna

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